“…The Moscow train pulls into Ulyanovsk early in the morning. These days the city welcomes you with bustling streets and squares, the courtyards and guardians the scarlet shade of leaves that have not yet fallen, the mirrored vitrines of shops, and a myriad of new buildings. If there’s anything particularly characteristic of Ulyanovsk’s new look, it is the construction cranes and scaffolding.”
Artist Kirill Gluschenko’s multidisciplinary project that seeks to understand the Soviet Union’s conception of “ideal.”
The mysterious Kaliningrad publishing house is preparing to move to Moscow. But a conflict is brewing in the leadership, and Roskomizdat is dragging its feet on documents. Discontent grows inside the team, and the long-forbidden question is asked out loud: who Glushchenko really was? Filmed in Kaliningrad in the summer 2020 by Pionerskkurortfilm for the 2nd Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Garage Museum.
